A passion-play was enacted amid the most impressive surroundings, and we need not doubt that the moral effect was beneficial and sometimes profound. ❋ Various (N/A)
There were many variations on this theme as the drama of faith evolved, and as it passed from land to land; but the Motif was ever the same, and they all were derived, directly or indirectly, from the old Osirian passion-play in Egypt. ❋ Joseph Fort Newton (1913)
I spoke to the minister's wife about it once -- not about a passion-play, of course, that wouldn't have done; but about our just taking hold of something as if we thought we were as good as those Germans, -- but she didn't seem to think we could. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He may have seen the passion-play at Gmuend, but this is uncertain. ❋ Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 (1901)
He had been lured into duck-hunting on a lake twenty miles away, in the hills, and had been accidentally shot on an Indian reservation, called Four Mountains, where the Church sometimes held a mission and presented a primitive sort of passion-play. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
The passion-play began at a house, Via della Bocca della Verità, No. 37, which is still called the "Locanda della Gaiffa," a corruption of ❋ Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1888)
He may have seen the passion-play at Gmünd, but this is uncertain. ❋ Calvin Thomas (1886)
The passion-music was the direct outgrowth of the passion-play. ❋ Unknown (1876)
John Terry let rip in his one-man passion-play, a few strong words were said back, ❋ Unknown (2010)
As the seconds counted down to another passion-play against a familiar foe, the Champions League anthem never stood a chance, the Kop launching into the 12-inch version of You'll Never Walk Alone. ❋ Unknown (2009)
... unfolding slowly before our wondering eyes, are we watching the "Angry Johnny" passion-play playing out in media-managed slow-mo, rather than a Rumplestiltskin moment? ❋ Unknown (2009)
For instance, he takes advantage of being at Meshed to bring in the passion-play of Hussein, as annually enacted by the Shiah Mohammedans in the month of Moharrem; of mentioning Herat to introduce the _bad-i-sad-o-bist-ruz_ or famous wind of 120 days; of conducting his hero to Kum, to describe the curious prescription of _bast_ or sanctuary that still adheres to that sacred spot; and of his arrival at Bagdad, to inflict upon him the familiar pest of the Bagdad pimple. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
Nothing in the deliverance of said figure’s message is compelling without his passion-play. ❋ Unknown (2008)
An artificial passion-play in real-time, directed by a skilled verbal fantasist, with only one possible conclusion. " ❋ Unknown (2010)
